121st Air Refueling Wing (ARW) ESGR

An Employer Support of Guard and Reserve (ESGR) familiarization mission of the 121st Air Refueling Wing (ARW) of the Ohio National Guard Thursday morning April 19, 2007 at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base (RANGB). The KC-135R air refueling flight took off from RANGB and flew along the Smokey Mountains, refueling an Air Force C-17 cargo plane flying out of Charleston for training of both the Cargo plane crew and that of the air refuelers. Cpt. James Bigelow, left, and Major Darrell Scott, right, in the cockpit and Boom Operator Marq ‘Q’ Thompson on the boom.